Snake River is a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting above sand.
Curiosity's science team plans to get a closer look at it before proceeding to other nearby rocks.

"It's one piece of the puzzle," said the mission's project scientist, John Grotzinger of the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena.

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'Snake River' Rock Feature Viewed by Curiosity Mars Rover

The sinuous rock feature in the lower center of this mosaic of images recorded by the NASA Mars
rover Curiosity is called "Snake River." The images in the mosaic were taken by Curiosity's Navigation Camera
during the 133rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Dec. 20, 2012).
On Sol 147 (Jan. 3, 2013), Curiosity drove about 10 feet (3 meters) to get a closer look at Snake River for
before proceeding to other nearby rocks. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

"It has a crosscutting relationship to the surrounding rock
and appears to have formed after the deposition of the layer that it transects."

The drive during the mission's 147th Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet took Curiosity about 10 feet (3 meters)
northwestward and brought the mission's total driving distance to 2,303 feet (702 meters). The rover is within a shallow
depression called "Yellowknife Bay," which is a flatter and lighter-toned type of terrain from what the mission crossed
during its first four months inside Gale Crater.

During a holiday break for the rover team, Curiosity stayed at a location within Yellowknife Bay from which the rover took
images of its surroundings.

The team is evaluating possible first targets for use of Curiosity's hammering drill in coming weeks.
The drill will collect powdered samples from the interior of rocks for analysis by instruments inside the rover.

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At Edge of 'Yellowknife Bay,' Sol 130

In a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay," the NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove to an edge of
the feature during the 130th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Dec. 17, 2012) and used its Navigation Camera
to record this view of the ledge at the margin and a view across the "bay."
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the
Mars Science Laboratory mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The mission's Curiosity
rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

"We had no surprises over the holidays," said the mission's project manager, Richard Cook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena. "Now, Curiosity is back on the move. The area the rover is in looks good for our first drilling target."

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